Unnatural Magic by C. M. Waggoner … okay. Let me stop there. I didn’t finish this book.
I got through the first…. 4 chapters or so (I don’t have it currently to verify), and could not get into this novel. The writing was fine, the characters should have been interesting, having a half-troll woman in a society where the female trolls rule, and having a human wizard girl who is really great at that.
But, I could not get into the world. The world just…. wasn’t really there for me. This is a novel that is fully immersed and based on the world premise. The world building. But it feels like the author is trying to build on something that feels like … 1800s England? Something like that?
If that was the case, it really wasn’t the best way to build this world. It is so alien from how we live, and different from anything I have read recently.
And, it didn’t work for me. Maybe someone else can make it through, but there was just nothing that caught and held my attention.
But, like, the cover is really cool.
